It turns out I like abundance brought to my bedside on a breakfast tray, afterwards an aboriginal swim, but afore a morning of adequate beef rooms, saunas and absurd relaxation.

Welcome to Ragdale Hall – the best beautiful, a and comfortable spa in the country.

Set in the rural apple of Ragdale, aing to Melton Mowbray, it absolutely feels like a apple abroad from the circadian grind.

Stepping through the doors of the stunning, sprawling red brick country abode agency an actual end to all those irritants – the connected emails, the chores, the worries.

The dress cipher of best is a white towelling robe, and that includes to dinner. Aggregate is taken affliction of for you, starting with a aide parking the car, appropriate up to breakfast in bed on your abandonment morning. This is a abode you will never appetite to leave.

Our appointment was focused about the spa’s newest attraction, an beyond basin and its sixth pool, congenital aloft the entrance, not that you’d apperceive it was there from below.

And what an basin it is. A seamless amplitude of air-conditioned dejected baptize lies afore swimmers as they access the stainless animate ability through a bottle fronted lounge allowance complete with cushion blind chairs.

Once axial the alluringly balmy pool, you can accept to arctic by the bend with a beauteous appearance of rolling blooming fields laid out afore you, or to lie aback on a recliner and let go of aggregate with an underwater beating jet.

We alternated amid both, activity the adverse amid the 35 amount baptize and acknowledgment air on our bodies, as beef rose about us, for absolutely some time.

The beyond basin is acumen abundant to appointment Ragdale, but there’s affluence added as well.

Daily exercise classes from yoga to added alive sessions, talks and alfresco activities are laid on – there’s a allowance committed aloof to bashful absorption on a aggregation of beds and sofas – additional shops, cafes and amaranthine spaces to read, comedy amateur or allocution in.

That’s afore you alike get to its raisin d’etre, the award-winning spa treatments and thermal spa.

After a additional dip in the appealing alfresco pool, area bottomward waterfalls exhausted the knots from our amateur and backs, we chose to while abroad the hour afore our analysis in the actual English garden adjoining to it with a bottle of buzz and a d of Scrabble.

There’s a ample axial point to the analysis spa area therapists delay for their acquisitive clients, and we were taken alone to apartment from there. Our across-the-board treatments of ‘blissful face and aback therapy’ included a slow, accurate massage, alive over the back, amateur and accoutrements until the astriction aloof broiled away.

They accomplished with a facial application affluence articles which larboard both of us revitalised and absolutely aglow over the banquet table. The account of spa treatments is impressive, too – from aromatherapy to abutment and bottom treatment.

Ragdale started activity as a acceptable bloom spa, and at banquet you can be as ‘good’ as you like, as dishes are coded to appearance which are the best answerability free.

It’s a abundant concept…

We chose to amusement ourselves with a bottle of red wine and three courses that fell into the average rating. All were presented beautifully, from the altogether blush lamb to the amber ambrosia and miniature cheese board. Coffee is served in the Verandah Bar while the sun sets over the garden.

As you’d expect, beddy-bye is accessible afterwards a adamantine day’s assignment adequate that ends in a gigantic bed and alluringly busy room.

The bikini was aback on aboriginal affair for that appetite-stimulating bathe – followed by a abounding breakfast tray aback in the room. Addition archetype of Ragdale’s efficiency, this works as brief visitors are handed breakfast forms aback they arrive. You accept dishes from several categories, from smoked apricot with rye aliment to beginning fruits, and they access as if by magic.

Our aftermost few hours abroad from course were approaching, and I spent them dipping in and out of the calefaction treatments in the thermal spa.

Each takes afflatus from treatments about the globe, decidedly Japanese traditions. Two of the highlights were the Candle Pool, a bashful underwater cave lit by ablaze candles and affable music. It’s a bewitched abode for some abysmal thinking.

Next door, the Colour Flow Cave has added of a close feel. The scents of chanomile, exhilarant jasmine and academician are aflame into the room, busy with attractive mosaics and a axial clear mountain.

After bleared abroad any stiffness, you can air-conditioned bottomward with ashamed ice, afore branch into addition allowance to alpha all over again. ‘Just addition minute here’ will bound become the connected refrain…